The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MRiRW) has announced that it has accepted the demands of the farmers protesting at the Medyka border crossing, which “will be taken into account and will be subject to implementation”.
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development informs in its letter of 3 January that it accepts and adopts all 3 demands of the farmers from the associations Deceived Village and United Village, which concern corn subsidies, an increase of 2.5 billion PLN in liquidity loan shares of 2 % and a reduction of agricultural tax in 2024.
“The implementation of the above-mentioned demands refers to planned and triggered actions, where the process of inter-ministerial, budgetary and European Commission arrangements takes time. However, each of the three measures indicated above is on a positive procedural path”, assures the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Czeslaw Siekierski, has included funds for corn subsidies and credit subsidies in the budget bill.
In addition, action has been taken on the regulation of agricultural tax in 2024, i.e. draft statutory amendments have been adopted, which must be accepted by the Sejm. As assured in the letter, these matters were agreed with the Minister of Finance in the presence of the Prime Minister.
Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Michał Kołodziejczak confirmed the ministry’s will to implement the farmers’ demands. “I have a note in front of me which says that the ministry accepts all three farmers’ demands and accepts them for implementation. We are talking here about corn subsidies, the amount of PLN 1 billion. We are awaiting confirmation from the European Commission as to whether this money can be spent. The Minister of Agriculture has entered the funds for corn subsidies in a specific reserve in the budget act. We have also fulfilled the second demand to increase lending to farmers to PLN 2.5 billion. PLN 150 million will be earmarked for liquidity loans”, he mentioned.
Adrian Andrzejewski